^ When I grew up, the Brit government not only provided sudsidised school meals, they also gave a free half-pint of milk to every schoolchild every day. That was a lot of milk: thousands of crates being delivered daily in time for the 11 o'clock Milk Break. In my school alone, about 300 bottles arrived every day and two milk monitors per class would go and collect the number of bottles as per that day's class attendance. Ten mins to drink the milk at your desk, then back to the lesson.
Although I can't easily imagine any government these days commiting to that kind of long-term funding and am in no way contradicting Psy-Fi's point, I wanted to point out what was once a reality in that den of socialism, post-war Britain.
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